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“They say that a blade drawn that does not taste blood shames the wielder.

When my father told me this old proverb i did not pay it much heed. After all, was it not obvious that should a blademaster draw his steel and prove unable to slay his foe, that he is shamed for being unable to defeat his foe ?

Since then many moons have traced their path across the sky. I no longer know where my father dissapeared, my mother alongside him. Since that time, when I was a merely a boy learning of the ways of war, I have drawn my blade a hundred times and spilled blood with each strike. Yet, now, I wonder about this proverb, for it has become apparent to me that spilled blood does not yield honor. More often shame."